Minerva Press, 1790 - 1821

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Mary Berry
The same year, presumably not by coincidence, the Minerva Press published a translation by Elizabeth Meeke : The Unpublished Correspondence of Madame du Deffand.
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Textual Production Elizabeth Strutt
ES published with the Minerva PressThe Borderers, An Historical Romance. Illustrative of the Manners of the Fourteenth Century.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 372
Stevens, Anne. “Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770-1812”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
7
, Dec. 2001.
Textual Production Ann Hatton
AH published with Minerva her five-volume Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments. A Novel, as Anne of Swansea, with 1821 on its title-page.
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 518
Textual Production Medora Gordon Byron
It was published by Minerva in three volumes, with mention of the two previous novels published as a Modern Antique, and an &c. suggesting a larger output. The title-page bears an aphorism, Love is...
Textual Production Mrs Ross
MR published with her name The Family Estate; or, Lost and Won. A Novel, with the Minerva Press .
Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 419
Textual Production Margaret Holford
If, as seems likely, it was Holford's eldest daughter (Margaret Holford later Hodson) who wrote Calaf, a Persian Tale, first published in the earlier part of 1798, then it was probably her mother who...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emma Parker
It opens with a brief eulogy of military commander John Moore , then moves to soldiers in the story landing at Portsmouth on their return from the Peninsular War. Many are badly wounded; one, a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jane Taylor
In this highly satirical treatment of the fashionable novel of the day, the woman-writer-protagonist's publisher Mr Newman (clearly a hit at A. K. Newman of the Minerva Press ) repeatedly reads her works aloud and...

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